Desktop

• Application
  • Updated Logos icon
  • Updated splash screen images for Logos.
  • Updated default avatar image.
  • Replaced most references to “Faithlife” with “Logos”.
  • Application title changed from Logos Bible Software to Logos Bible Study.
• Layouts
  • Merged similar Home Page and QuickStart Layouts.
    • User modifications to the removed Passage Study and Topic Study QuickStart layouts are preserved via a new saved layout
  • Added a Factbook panel to various QuickStart Layouts.
  • Added the ability to open QuickStart Layouts to a reference from the command box.
  • Daily Devotional and Search QuickStart Layouts can be added to the Home Page.
• Passage Lists
  • Various improvements to Passage Lists:
    • Added the ability to add duplicate passages.
    • Verse-mapping is now supported, (e.g., Passage Lists knows that Joel 2:28 in an English Bible is Joel 3:1 in a Hebrew Bible).
    • Passage Lists uses the multi-resource version picker.
    • Various improvements to the UI.
    • Sort option has been added to the Passage List toolbar.
    • A “Too Many Items” alert will popup when attempting to drag/drop more items than what is supported.
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• Search
  • Added the following options when selecting resources in Morph Search:
    • Top Greek New Testament
    • Top Hebrew Bible
    • Top Greek Septuagint
  • Added Book Type as a section in the collection picker for Morph and Bible searches.
  • Added Language as a section in the collection picker for Morph, Bible, and Books searches.
• Sermons
  • Added the ability to create a line break in Sermon Builder with SHIFT+ENTER on the keyboard.
  • Updated button styling for Media Tool on Mac.
• Home Layout
  • Cards in the home layout display the updated Logos icon.
• Memorization
  • The Memorization Tool is now its own panel, accessible via the Tools menu.
• Additional Changes
  • Faithlife Assistant is no longer available in the application.
• Bug Fixes
  • Context Menu
    • Resolved a bug that caused Bible search to be suggested in the context menu for headwords. Thread.
  • Factbook Tags
    • Resolved a crash that occurred when adding a Factbook Tag to Orthodox Church. Thread.
  • Factbook
    • Resolved a bug that caused the Christian History Factbook section to incorrectly use localized data.
  • Guides
    • Resolved a bug that kept results in Parallel Passages guides from wrapping at smaller panel widths. Thread.
    • Resolved a crash that occurred in the Important Words section when running a Passage Guide on a reference with verse parts.
  • Highlighting
    • Improved color styling for Highlight icons in Dark Mode.
  • Layouts
    • Resolved a crash that occurred when opening the Bible Reading Plan layout with an Atlas open and linked to certain bibles.
    • Resolved a crash that occurred when adding Search and Devotional Layouts to the Home Page. Thread.
  • Library
    • Resolved a bug that caused filtering by type to not work when viewing resources in cover view in the Library.
  • Links
    • Resolved a crash that occurred when following L4 links.
  • Memorization
    • Improved styling to various components in Dark Mode.
  • Notes
    • Increased the number of tag filters that are visible in the notes sidebar.
  • Reading Plans
    • Resolved a crash that occurred when creating a shared custom reading plan. Thread.
  • Resources
    • Resolved a crash that occurred in The Greek New Testament According to Majority Text. Thread.
  • Reverse Interlinears
    • Resolved a bug that caused the reverse interlinear pane to occasionally fail to load.
    • Resolved a bug that caused the first word in a verse to remain highlighted in the RVI pane after clicking on other words in the verse. Thread.
    • Resolved a bug that caused the resource panel to jump locations when the Reverse Interlinear ribbon was open and a large number of reading plan markups were present in the same location in a resource.
  • Search
    • Resolved a bug that caused the pericope view in inline search to be broken after downloading the latest pericope sets resource.
    • Resolved a bug that resulted in morph picker showing morphologies that were unsupported in a resource.
    • Resolved a bug that caused Basic Search to ignore the specified range for certain resources.
    • Resolved a bug that caused adjacent search terms to be merged together in search preview.
    • Removed the logic that uses the abbreviated title when there isn’t space for the full title when executing a Books Search.
    • Resolved a bug that caused “Send Searches Here” settings to be ignored and resulted in a new Search panel being opened when a word in a resource was double clicked. Thread.
  • Sermons
    • Resolved a bug that resulted in the incorrect keyboard shortcut being shown when hovering over styling tools in Sermon Builder. Thread.
    • Resolved a bug that caused slides to flash on and back off when opening a Sermon despite having the Show Slides preference set to off.
    • Resolved a bug that resulted in duplicate tool tips to appear in Sermon Manager.
    • Resolved a bug that caused sermons with multi page slides to not export to Powerpoint.
    • Resolved a bug that caused images that were dragged/dropped into a sermon to be uneditable.
    • Resolved a bug that resulted in the inability to export Sermons to PowerPoint.
    • Resolved a bug that caused the full title of a resource to appear in a reference slide for certain Sermon themes.
    • Resolved a bug that caused author’s names to appear in the citation location on a Sermon slide.
    • Resolved a bug that caused duplicate text to appear in Sermon slides.
    • Resolved a bug that caused Sermon slides to flicker upon opening.
  • Touch Screen
    • Improvements to scrolling in popups on touch screen devices.
  • Users
    • Resolved a bug that caused the current user to be cleared when selecting Clear Users from the account menu.
  • Passage Lists
    • Resolved a bug that caused added passages to not insert below the currently selected passage.
    • Resolved a bug that caused the kebab menu icons to be misaligned.
    • Resolved a bug that kept resources from opening to a filtered list when navigating to them from an item in a Passage List.
    • Resolved a bug that caused single lines of text to not be centered.
  • Search
    • Resolved a bug that caused areas of Morph Query documents to not be translated when the application was set to French.
  • Windows Bug Fixes
    • Toolbar
      • Resolved a bug that caused the application logo in the Toolbar to be clipped.
  • Mac Bug Fixes
    • Layouts
      • Resolved a bug that resulted in Table of Contents state not being preserved in saved Layouts when resource panels were situated behind other panels. Thread & Thread.
    • Bible Browser
      • Resolved a bug that caused the offline warning in Bible Browser to be illegible in Dark Mode.
    • Documents
      • Resolved a bug that resulted in the info side panel getting stuck in an always open or unopenable state when accessing the Documents menu.
    • Notes
      • Resolved a bug that inhibited dragging images into notes from certain web browsers.
    • Panels
      • Resolved a bug that resulted in the scrollbar on panels being difficult to click and drag at higher program scaling on Mac.
    • Print/Export
      • Resolved a bug that caused resource text to be illegible in print/export view in Dark Mode.
    • Resources
      • Corrected styling of play button on video resources.
    • Word Lists
      • Resolved a bug that caused alert banners in Word Lists to be illegible in Dark Mode.

Mobile

• Android & iOS
  • We’ve updated the Logos icon, splash screen and colors to reflect our new Logos brand.
  • We’ve added language-specific books to the default layouts that show when initially installing the app. 
• iOS
  • We’ve added auto-complete suggestions to the search tool. When entering a search query, auto-complete and recent searches are shown and filtered in a selectable list.
  • Fixed a crash with Text Selection on iOS versions before 15.2
  • Fixed a crash with a localized message in ISBN scanner
  • Fixed a crash with Top Bibles in a Bible Search Panel
  • Fixed an issue where Auto Complete wasn’t working in “All Search”
  • Fixed an issue with the visibility of the cursor in the sign-in screens
  • Fixed an issue with the editing of input boxes in resources
  • Fixed an issue for some Interlinear resources missing the Bible Text Only – One Verse Per Line view setting
  • Fixed a a layout issue for Link Set controls in the Resource menu for large system text sizes
  • Changed the Favorites access for unauthenticated users
• Android
  • Added Clear button to remove Search tool history.
  • Various Search Auto-Complete improvements
  • Fixed an issue where Read Aloud was reading “St.” as “Street” instead of “Saint”
  • Fixed an issue where the checkmark wasn’t showing for selecting top bible
  • Fixed an issue where the reference box wasn’t showing initial results
  • Fixed a crash when opening the app for Chromebooks
  • Fixed an issue where some library filters were not working
  • Fixed an issue with setting top bibles when offline
  • Fixed an issue with note formatting on some devices
  • Localized Report Typo strings

Web

• Application
  • Updated "Logos Bible Software" site name to "Logos Bible Study"
  • Changed the green default profile avatar to a blue default avatar.
  • Refreshed the blue color used in links and buttons

Desktop

• Reverse Interlinears
  • Added new means of indicating availability of reverse interlinears for applicable resources.
• Search
  • Print functionality has been added to Bible Search.
• Sermons
  • Updated font coloring for edited scripture text in Sermon builder.
  • Added the following fields to the info panel for Sermon Manager and Sermon Builder:
    • Number in Series
    • Tags
    • Target Duration
    • File Links
• Bug Fixes
  • Links in the about panel link to the correct storefront based on the language set in the application.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the theme and splash screen to reuse the status of the last user when switching between accounts.
  • Resolved a bug that caused some collections to not be properly saved when running a morph search.
  • Resolved a bug that caused an extensive list of resources to show up in a person lookup from the context menu. Thread.
  • Resolved a bug that caused Delete and Duplicate to be too close to each other in Document context menus.
  • Resolved a bug that resulted in bad data being displayed in Word By Word guides. Thread & Thread.
  • Resolved a bug that caused an unnecessary letter “E” to appear in the rows when setting prioritization limits in the Library.
  • Resolved a bug that caused footnote text to not paste in when copying and pasting into Notes. Thread.
  • Resolved a crash that occurred when generating and clicking HTML links in Notes. Thread.
  • Improved wording for error message that occurs when a Clause Search is unavailable. Thread.
  • Resolved a bug that caused footnotes to be included in search results when only a partial match was present.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the autocomplete menu for Factbook Tags search to display items that don’t return results for Factbook.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the morph picker to not work in Bible inline search.
  • Resolved a bug that caused Document results to incorrectly appear under canvas when filtering by document type. Thread.
  • Resolved a bug that kept search templates from executing when hitting the enter key.
  • Resolved a bug that kept illustrated search results from appearing in the right-hand column.
  • Resolved a bug that caused crossref:passagelist:=”Passage List” to ignore the match equals. Thread
  • Resolved a bug that caused Sermon builder to show a blank screen when dragging and dropping images from the Media Tool. Thread.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the RVI banner to flash when opened.
  • Resolved a bug that caused duplicate RVI purchase banners to appear.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the incorrect resource to appear in the banner when a reverse interlinear is available to purchase.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the purchase banner to not appear when a reverse interlinear license was not owned.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the RVI button to appear on cloud resource previews.
  • And more.

Mobile

• Android & iOS
  • We’ve refreshed Saved Layouts, making it easier to create and manage your layouts (Feedback Request).
  • We added a button to close all open tabs (Feedback Request).
  • We’ve disabled the default swipe-to-highlight behavior. You can still enable this setting from resource settings.
• iOS
  • Improved the error message when attempting to register with an email address of an existing account.
  • Fixed an issue in translation cards when selecting a single word, where the translated word wasn’t displayed
  • Fixed a crash when saving layouts
  • Fixed an issue where adding a verse to a passage list would open multiple verse pickers
  • Fixed an issue that prevented “Change Resource” to switch between different documents of the same kind (i.e. between two different passage lists)
  • Fixed an issue where navigating in Text Comparison would scroll to a different verse
  • Fixed an issue for some users where the notes visual filter might not stay enabled
  • Fixed a regression that removed the ability to delete a highlight when selected
  • Fixed an issue truncating text in Text Comparison
  • Fixed an issue showing the selection menu in Faithlife Study Bible popup articles and tabular data
  • Fixed an issue that would cause the text selection menu to sometimes not appear
• Android
  • The loading time of Search Kinds has been improved.
  • Fixed an issue where changing a resource kept the Bible reference
  • Fixed an issue where the resource margin updated on tablets when the number of columns changed
  • Fixed an issue where the animation was lost when opening a new worksheet
  • Fixed an issue when sharing to Twitter

Web

• Quick Action Buttons
  • Added one-click buttons to open your top commentary, study bible, bible dictionary, devotional, and Text Comparison tool.
• Search
  • Added a basic collection picker that has three ways of filtering your search to a specific set of books.

• Favorites
  • Website title will appear as the name for URL Favorites.
  • Count is displayed for number of items that will open when “Open All” is selected from the menu.
  • Updated cursor preview for drag and drop actions.
  • All subfolders will be opened when a folder is dragged and dropped outside of the Favorites panel.
• Search
  • Morph Picker selections appear in alphabetical order.
  • Morph Picker popup triggers in Bible Search kind when typing ‘@’ or the prefix for a morph data type reference.
  • Improvements to speed of milestone searches across large libraries.
  • Improvements to speed of reference range searches.
  • Improvements to speed of milestone searches with reference supersets.
• Sermons
  • Updated styling for Media Tool buttons.
  • Improvements to applying custom backgrounds to slides.
  • Content is preserved when editing slide backgrounds.
• UI/UX Changes
  • Updated wording for features section in the About panel.
• Windows-only
  • Added IME support on Windows for resource panel, workflow panel, and various additional areas where IME was previously unsupported.
• Many Bug Fixes
  • Resolved a bug that caused BibTex citation style to incorrectly import into Zotero.
  • Resolved a bug that caused areas of Clippings documents to be unlocalized.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the ALT+D/OPT+CMD+L keyboard shortcut to not open the command box. Thread.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the loading indicator to be missing from the Factbook Tags section in the Factbook panel.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the Factbook tag tooltip to show duplicate results for Dataset and user-generated tags.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the Add Factbook Tags option to appear in the context menu for Personal Books.
  • Resolved a bug that caused deleted Factbook tags to still show up in the Factbook Tags section. Thread.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the Undo popup to cut off at certain panel widths.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the website icon to be lost when adding URL Favorites. Thread.
  • Improved loading times for Favorites icons.
  • Resolved a bug that caused certain color names in the highlight tool to be unlocalized.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the Church History Ontology dataset to appear in Add to Library.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the note indicator to show at the start of a chapter when a note was added to a specific verse. Thread, Thread, & Thread.
  • Resolved a bug that caused the note indicator to show at the start of a chapter when a note was added to a specific verse in Bibles.
  • Resolved a bug that resulted in trailing punctuation causing autocomplete to generate invalid queries.
  • Resolved a bug that caused previously deleted resources to not index when redownloaded. Thread.
  • Resolved a bug that caused an infinite loading bar in grouped view when viewing results for a book that is currently being indexed.
  • Resolved a bug that caused field.root: queries to lose localization when selected from the autocomplete menu.
  • Resolved a bug that caused a syncing error when saving a search from a passage guide connected to a large collection.
  • Resolved a bug that caused menus to disappear when attempting to interact via touch.
  • And more.

• Android & iOS
  • Extended support for Factbook cards with additional card types and Factbook tags.
• Many Bug Fixes
  • Resolved an issue where invoking a Bible Word Study from a Word Info card opened the wrong lemma
  • Resolved a bug that would prevent starting a reading plan from within a resource
  • Resolved an issue where the reference box was not being updated correctly
  • Resolved an issue when minimizing or switching apps caused changes in the location within a book
  • Resolved an issue with opening the wrong panel
  • Resolved a crash when search panels were being reused
  • Resolved a crash when viewing some note anchors
  • Resolved unlocalized text
  • Resolved Text Comparison not working with Top Bibles
  • And more.
    
    

• Factbook
  • Improved quality of Key Article Sections for author pages.
  • Increased number of resources that return results for the Key Article section.
• Notes
  • Added support for Shift+Enter within a list.
• Search
  • Improvements to parsing queries with large numbers of terms.
  • Added support for exact matching with passagelist keywords.
  • Added support for stacking textual field keywords with passagelist keywords.
  • Terms that follow match in the match.xyz: search query will be checked for typos.
• Splash Screens
  • Application build month and year have been added to the Splash Screen.
• UI Changes
  • Sermons
    • Renamed “Publish” button to “Export”.
  • Panel tabs
    • Dragging multiple panels now shows a count. (Shift+click to select and drag a full stack of panel tabs.)
  • Favorites
    • Updated styling for multi-item drag preview.
  • Many Bug Fixes
    • Audio resource crash
    • Crash when pasting rich text into a note.
    • Crash when copying the URL for a Book Search when all result sections were collapsed.
    • The indexer caused the latter half of multi word search hits to be treated as separate hit counts when searching for lemmas in translations with reverse interlinears.
    • Non-Greek text in Greek resources were not translatable.
    • Duplicate Factbook Tags to appearing in the context menu
    • And many more fixes!

• Android & iOS
  • Ability to add Print Books to your Print Library by manually enter the ISBN and by adding in your Library

• Search Improvements
  • Bible results in Passage View can now be exported to a spreadsheet.
  • New Search panels initialize to last used search settings
  • Updated search result groups to infinitely scroll.
  • Added new ways to group results in books search
  • Added Print Library and Cloud resources to the collections picker in Books Search.
  • Print/Export is now available in Bible and Morph searches
• Favorites
  • Added an option to undo a deleted item.
  • Added the ability to create duplicate Favorites.
  • Added the ability to create a copy of a Favorites item from dragging and dropping while holding the Control key on Windows or Options key on Mac.
• Splash Screen
  • Updated splash screens to reflect the owned feature set and program version number.
• Version number
  • Updated the application versioning scheme. Thread.
• UI Improvements
  • Renamed “Local Books” to “Downloaded Books” in collection picker.
  • Renamed “All Resources” to “All Books” in Morph Search.
  • Improvements to drop shadow styling in the Windows application.

• Android & iOS
  • Performance improvements for reference detection.
• iOS
  • VoiceOver now works in the selection menu.
• Android
  • Report Typo feature has been added back into the selection menu

Desktop

• More Search Types: Several more search types have been added to the top of the search panel. The added search types are Factbook, Docs, Maps, Factbook Tags, and Bookstore.
• Improved Autocomplete: We’ve made more than a dozen improvements to autocomplete to make it even easier to enter the search syntax you need. Autocomplete will now suggest:
  • Bible passages, after the bible: keyword
  • Highlighting styles after the highlight: keyword
  • Passage lists after the passageList: keyword
  • Speakers after the speaker: keyword
  • Addressees after the addressee: keyword
  • Label attributes after any label keyword (try sermon: or journalArticle:)
• More Flexible Favorites: It’s now possible to add references to favorites. To add them, open the Favorites panel from the Tools menu, then click on the Add button. You’ll see all the references in your open panels listed at the bottom of that menu. Just click on one to add it as a Favorite.

Mobile

• Android & iOS
  • Auto Translation Cards: You can now automatically translate your books.
  • Print Library Book Search: View a preview of Print Library books with an “All” or “Books” search using the Search tool.
  • Favorites Button in Selection Menu: The Favorites button has been added to the actions row of the Selection Menu for non-Bible books.
• Android
  • Discover Tab: Visit this tab for more info on book purchases.
• iOS
  • Dictionary Cards: Double-tap to select a word and you will see the dictionary definition of that word in the Dictionary Card in the Selection Menu.
  • Canvas Image Export: You can now export your Canvas images.
  • Draw on Screen for iPhone

• Add Passage Lists to the mobile app
• Add Preaching Mode for sermons on the mobile app
• Bring Factbook to the mobile app
• Improve Reference Scanner
• Make Search more prominent

• Add dark/night mode to desktop
• Add folders to shortcuts
• Improve shortcuts toolbar overflow

• Sermon planning
• Preaching Mode for sermons
• Sermon templates

• Add more kinds of data to Factbook
• Add Factbook visual filter to resources
• Add Factbook info box to Search results
• Add Factbook to Go Box

• Add metadata to documents
• Add share buttons to all documents

• Counseling Guide
• Charts tool
• Allow adding images in Notes